Building resilient event-driven architectures with Apache Kafka

This 55th edition of the Kafka Monthly Digest covers what happened in the Apache Kafka community in August 2022.

For last month’s digest, see Kafka Monthly Digest: July 2022.

Releases

There is currently one release in progress, 3.3.0.

3.3.0

The release process for 3.3.0 continued. José Armando García Sancio published the first release candidate on August 29. A few issues, including KAFKA-14187 and KAFKA-14156, were found during testing, so José built RC1 on September 1. The vote is currently ongoing. You can find the release plan in the wiki.

Kafka Improvement Proposals

Last month, the community submitted three Kafka Improvement Proposals (KIPs) (KIP-863 to KIP-865). I'll highlight a couple of them:

Community releases

  • akhq 0.22: AKHQ is a GUI for Apache Kafka. This new version adds a few new features, including support for listing ACLs on Cluster and TransactionalIds and sending Protobuf records via the UI.
  • kafkajs 2.2.0: Kafkajs is a pure JavaScript Kafka client for Node.js. This release adds support for triggering and listing partition reassignments in its Admin API and contains a few fixes.

Blogs

I selected some interesting blog articles that were published last month:

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Last updated: October 9, 2023